1. Career

2. References

Anja Kampe is a German-Italian operatic soprano, born 1968 in the GDR. She is notable for her performances in major opera houses of the works of Richard Wagner and other German and Austrian composers.

Career

Kampe was born in Zella-Mehlis, Thuringia, and studied in Dresden and then, having moved to Italy, in Turin, where she studied with Elio Battaglia and made her professional debut in 1991 in a production of Hänsel und Gretel. She sang the roles of Freia in Das Rheingold and Gerhilde (Die Walküre) at the Bayreuth Festival in 2002, Leonore in Fidelio with Glyndebourne Festival Opera (2006) and at Los Angeles Opera (2007), the title-role in Ariadne auf Naxos at the Teatro Real, Madrid in 2006,^[1] and Sieglinde (Die Walküre) opposite Plácido Domingo at the Washington National Opera in 2003 and 2007.^[2] In 2009 she returned to Glyndebourne as Isolde in Tristan und Isolde,^[3] and in April 2010 she sang in the American premiere of Franz Schreker's Die Gezeichneten at Los Angeles Opera.^[4] In June of the same year she performed the role of Elizabeth in Tannhäuser at the Vienna State Opera.^[5] In March 2012 she again sang the role of Sieglinde in the new production of Die Walküre at the Bavarian State Opera, Munich.

In 2010 she was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for her performance of Senta in the Royal Opera, London’s new production of Richard Wagner's The Flying Dutchman.^[6]

On the 19th of January, 2018, she was awarded the coveted title of Kammersänger in a ceremony on stage at the National Theater in Munich after a performance of Die Walküre in the role of Sieglinde.

References

• Sir Henry Cheere, 1st Baronet
• Sir Henry Craik, 3rd Baronet
• Sir Henry Davies
• Sir Henry d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, 2nd Baronet
• Sir Henry Davison
• Sir Henry de Vic, 1st Baronet
• Sir Henry Dundas
• Sir Henry Edney Conrad Cain
• Sir Henry Edwyn Stanhope
• Sir Henry Ewart, 1st Baronet
• Sir Henry Fane
• Sir Henry Fetherstonhaugh, 2nd Baronet
• Sir Henry Foreman
• Sir Henry Goring, 4th Baronet
• Sir Henry Harben
• Sir Henry Hervey Aston Bruce, 1st Baronet
• Sir Henry Hodge
• Sir Henry Hoghton, 5th Baronet
• Sir Henry Hoghton, 6th Baronet
• Sir Henry Hoghton, 7th Baronet
• Sir Henry Hugh Arthur Hoare, 6th Baronet
• Sir Henry Humm
• Sir Henry Ingoldsby
• Sir Henry Jebb
• Sir Henry Jones